filepro wish list

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:
> This request is just part and parcel of what I've been proposing for the
> better part of a year now--abstraction of the storage layer. 

Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.

There is no business case for henschen and associates to open up the 
storage subsystems of their proprietary systems. I can see perfectly 
clear why a spelling checker would be a benefit to their goverment 
software packages, but allowing their databases to be "data warehoused" 
just would just invite comparison and competition.

Same thing for all the floor covering and whatever other types of 
vertical markets that are primarly written in filePro. It makes no sence 
to have the customer's data available to third party add-ons.

You don't want them useing OLAP tools, or use ("gag") excel to directly 
query the data.

It'll only take two minutes to write a report that'll giv'em the same 
information.